Persepolis: A Not Normal Story
Persepolis,
written by Marjane Satrapi, is an outstanding and not normal book that shows
the life of a little girl that grew up in Iran and lots of historical events
happened that time in the form of comic. Actually it’s a serious book that
tells people what have happened in Iran that time, but it’s easy to understand.
The author, Satrapi, who is also the main character of the book, wrote the book
from the view of first person. She grew up in Iran and went to France later,
and wrote this book. Thus, the book firstly populated at France. Persepolis
is a book that showed the true events happened in Iran, which is difficult for
us, who never see the war, to understand. As a result, I like this not normal
book, which tells people the true history of Iran in a humorous way from the
view of a little girl.
When I started read the book, I was quickly
attracted by the stories of Marjane. The story starts when Marjane was ten. She
used to believe her schoolteachers and believed the god selected the king.
However after her parents join the demonstrations, after she knew her grandpa,
who was a prince, died because of the king, she changed her mind. Actually she
was not unshakeable, but that’s just the way she grew up and understood things.
After her uncle, Anoosh, and many of her father’s friends died because of they
are communists, she understood that there are many things that she couldn’t do
in her life. She just stayed in Iran, the country that she loved, and saw the
war started, saw tons of people died, and saw time can never come back again. Even
though she was sent to Vienna, Austria lastly, she still have many memory of
Iran.
It is an extraordinary story, because not everybody can
have this kind of childhood, and also, it’s so difficult for people who know
these to tell others what really happened. It is hard for people that don’t
have these kinds of experience to understand it. So, it is really good for
Satrapi make it in the form of comic and use a humorous way to show what she
knew. For example, when Iran closed the country, when it was the time that no
foreign things can be wore in Iran, when she was caught by two religious women
because of wore foreign and fashion things, she used exaggerate comics to show
how she escape from the two women. It should be a sad thing that the country
she was in had many old opinions, but she had nothing to do, and she could only
show this by using sardonic language and comics.
The only thing confuse me is I sometimes cannot identify
people that have the same faces in the comic. It’s not difficult to understand
the word and what happened, but I usually don’t know who the characters are.
However, I think it might be a way that Satrapi showed readers Iranians are all
the same that they don’t have freedom, and all Iranian women need to wear veils
and they had no right to do things. It showed that people lost themselves in
Iran. It is sad, but it is the truth.
Actually Satrapi can never go back Iran, because she
tells the truth by wrote this book. Lastly, I really recommend people to read
the book for understanding the true history of Iran and feeling the way that
the writer write.
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